The Saint Augustine Film Festival returns to the ancient city for its 7th year with another fabulous international line-up of independent films, documentaries and shorts. Saint Augustine offers an idyllic setting to celebrate the arts. Readers of USA Today selected St. Augustine as one of the Top 10 Best Historic Southern Attractions. USA Today (June…
Riverdance returns to Jacksonville, Northeast Florida’s River City, in 2017 with an amazing new show that promises to dazzle and inspire. Riverdance has been wowing audiences for decades with an innovative blend of music, dance and song. Theatrical storytelling at its very best! The 20th Anniversary Tour marks the return of the show after a…
When I think of Tennessee, music meccas like Nashville and Memphis easily come to mind. My recent weekend road trip in search of fall foliage and cooler temps led me to Eastern Tennessee for what was to be an enlightening vacation experience. In just a few short days, I quickly learned that Tennessee’s natural beauty,…
A few French winemakers are taking note of an incredibly surreal and otherworldly tasting room that has just opened at la Maison in the Burgundy village of Vougeot. The tasting room is a first for the region, a short hop from the Château du Clos Vougeot in the home village of the Boisset family. Here, they have created the…
Conductor Carlo Ponti and the Festival Orchestra NAPA are joined by two of opera’s most exciting young stars – tenor Michael Fabiano and mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard – for an unforgettable night of arias and duets. Fabiano, whom the San Francisco Chronicle called “the hardest working opera singer in show business” and a singer “with a muscular and mellifluous tenor voice,” has earned raves for…
Each year, Festival Napa Valley (formerly Festival del Sole) features the Bouchaine Young Artist Series with free concerts at Jarvis Conservatory Theater in downtown Napa. This year, all three of the artists are from, or have roots in, Northern California and the Bay Area. Each has been acknowledged recently and all of these awards/grants have…
It’s one of those freaky warm San Francisco nights. Perfect mood for the SF Indie Doc Festival. IndieFest calls this annual event a film festival that provides a manageable amount of the truth. Devoted to all things documentary cinema for 15 years, they promise and deliver two weeks of the most weird and wonderful aspects…